Title :
A model of word meaning inference development in child
Author :
Shimotomai, Tahyuki ; Omori, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Eng., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
Abstract :
Many researchers of infant language acquisition have reported that three-year-old infants can properly expand the meaning of a noun to a new object. However, for the verb, Imai et al. reported that infants gradually acquire a proper expansion of verb meaning from 3 years to 5 years old. In this study, we analyze the experimental data with a statistical model in order to elucidate the structure of information processing in a child´s meaning inference of nouns and verbs.
Keywords :
cognition; physiological models; psychology; binomial distributions; hierarchical model; infant language acquisition; probability; statistical estimation; verb meaning inference; Computer displays; Data analysis; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Information processing; Jacobian matrices; Learning systems; Natural languages; Psychology; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Information Processing, 2002. ICONIP '02. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
981-04-7524-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICONIP.2002.1202818
